Oil and gas companies will “pile in” with fracking plans all over the country to exploit a legal loophole if a North ...

Residents in a North Yorkshire village where there are plans for lower-volume fracking have called on the energy minister to apologise over claims he made about the process.

An environmental campaigner is challenging the government over what he says are “misleading” and “inaccurate” claims about ...

Residents in a North Yorkshire village where there are plans for lower-volume fracking have called on the energy minister to ...

An official online petition calling for a ban on all forms of fracking has passed an important milestone. It received more ...

The operator of the field, BritNRG, has estimated that the well, if approved, could extract 88 barrels of oil a day, or about 12 tonnes. The company has estimated the well could extract up to 118,000 ...

Planners at North Lincolnshire Council ruled that two new wells at Wressle, near Scunthorpe, would contribute to climate change but the likely impact wasn’t enough to require an environmental impact ...

Cuadrilla statement said the rig is expected to arrive towards the end of February. It also said: “Cuadrilla plans to move equipment onto the Preston New Road site in the second half of February to ...

Campaigners and councillors have said they are shocked that a government-appointed inspector has overturned the refusal of planning permission for long-term oil production in the Lincolnshire Wolds ...

The UK’s most controversial shale gas site has failed to meet the deadline to plug two fracked wells – putting it in breach of planning consent. Cuadrilla’s mothballed Preston New Road shale gas site ...

Decision date for approval of planning application WSCC/052/12/WC for a deviated exploratory oil well at Broadford Bridge ...

About 1,400 formal objections have been submitted in a public consultation on the Europa Oil & Gas exploration plans near the North York Moors national park. At the time of writing, just seven ...